Automobile-cap.



CAP.

APPLI Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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AUTOMOBILE GAP.

APPLICATION TILED PBB.12, 1913.

1,084,109. Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ABBAM PLOTKIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

AUTOMOBILE-CAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 13, 1914.

Application filed February 12, 1913. Serial No. 747,841.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Amour PLOTKIN, a subject of the Czar of Russia,residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Automobile-Cap, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an automobile rap more particularly adapted tobe worn by ladies and which effectively protects the face of the wearerfrom the elements, shields the eyes from dust and wind, and prevents thehair from bagging over the forehead.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view showing myautomobile cap in use; Fig. 2 a similar view with the vizor folded intothe cap; Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modification of thecap; Fig. 4. a side view of the cap shown in Figs. 1 and Fig. 5 a frontview thereof; Fig. (3 a vertical. section thereof; Fig. 7 a perspectiveview of the cap shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 8 a" detail. showing the rearshirring string.

The body 10 of the cap is made in the form of a shallow bonnet or hoodadapted to fit the head of the wearer. At its front, the hood isgathered into fixed rearwardly extending folds 11, so as to be somewhatexpansible and accommodate the front hair. To the front edge of thehood, there is secured a vizor 12 made of flexible material and adaptedto be folded either outward at an obtuse angle so as to project over theforehead (Fig. 1), or inward so as to be turned into the crown againstthe lower side of the hood (Fig. and thus leave the face exposed. Vizor12 is provided with a lower central notch 13 to fit the nose, and with apair of windows 1st for the eyes, so that the use of separate goggles isdispensed with. Each window is covered at its edge by a flexible andpreferably overspun. oval frame 15 which here reinforces and stiffensthe vizor. Over the front of the hood directly back of the vizor, thereextends from side to side, a transverse band 16, which is attached tothe hood along its forward edge, but is disconnected therefrom at itsrear edge. At its ends, the band may likewise be sewn to the hood and behere provided with ornamental. buttons 17 l as shown. The band willcover up the for ward portions of the folds 11 and thus while the lattermay expand in conformity to the style of the confine, the expanded foldswill be prevented from producing an unsightly bagging effect above thevizor, the forward edge of the band serving at the same time for lmldingthe hair back from the forehead.

At the neck or lower edge, the hood provided with an elastic shirringstring 18, (Fig. 8) which here draws the hood together into back folds19. This elastic shirring string by gathering .in the cap at the back,has the important function of tending to contract the cap at its frontedge and to thus tightly draw the 'vizor 12 against the forehead, sothat dust or wind cannot creep in under the same.

From the shirred back of the hood, there depends the rear section of aneck piece or cape 20, which is extended some distance beyond one sideof the hood, so that it may be folded with its loose end over theshoulders. This cape carries one member 21 of a fastener, the othercoacting member 22 of which is carried by the other side of the hood.

After the cap has been placed on the head, the loose end of the cape isdrawn across the front of the neck, the fasteners 21, 22 are closed, andthen the cape is thrown over the shoulders, that the wearer isthoroughly protected.

lVith the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 7, the cape is omitted, butotherwise the cap is of the same construction as that shown in the otherfigures.

I claim:

an automobile cap comprising a hood, ha ring a gathered front to form aplurality of reammrdlv extending folds, a windowed vizor foldablysecured to said front, and a band extending transversely over the hoodand connected at its forward edge to the front thereof directly back ofthe ViZOl', while the rear edge of the band is disconnected from thehood to form an expansile but covered hood-section back of the vizor.

ARR-AM PLOTKIN.

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Copies 01' this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of I'atenta. Washington, D. C.

